Actor/student/questionable Oscar hostJames Francohas declared his love for the cute,cow-savingCanadian in a new column for The Huffington Post headlined — wait for it —Burning for Gosling. In it, the 34-year-old described Gosling's new flick, "Place Beyond the Pines," which he apparently liked. A lot.

"I loved the whole film and was engaged every moment of the way," Franco wrote. "But what I want to talk about is the first section, the Gosling section; I want to make love to this section."

The "Oz the Great and Powerful" actor goes on to refer to Gosling as having a "badass face" and being "a master at evoking character through dress."

"The rest of the film is great, but the following two sections can't hope to burn with the same intensity of the Gosling section, they're not designed that way. It's not the actors' faults, it's just that Gosling was cast as the shooting star, and he sucked up all the oxygen. I could watch that first section over and over and over and over."

Gosling has been getting showered with flattery lately. The rave review from Franco follows Ryan Cabrera flashing his Gosling tattoo in Las Vegas last week. Although he insisted that the ink was the result of a game of tattoo roulette, he seemed pretty eager to show it off.